Profile Problem in XP Pro

From: Alistair Quigley (alistair@adq.org.uk)
Date: 01/30/03 

From: "Alistair Quigley" <alistair@adq.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:03:47 -0800

Thanks for the advice - however I know for a fact that
this machine has never had XP home on it. Will keep
looking but am not hopefull....

>-----Original Message-----
>I am running in to a similar problem mine is that I
can't
>for my life get the profile to copy over. I have posted
my
>problem under "windows XP new users" anyway I did found
>out something that might help us both. The laptop that I
>am working on used to have XP home edition on it and
then
>he upgraded it to XP pro. I have noticed that when you
do
>that strange thing happens. I am now going to copy his
>whole C: over to the server and format and reinstall but
>with XP pro directly. Then move everything back and so
>forth (well I think you know what I am looking forward
to:-
>) you might put your Questing on to www.tek-tips.com I
>have had some success getting good answers there.
>
>Good luck let me know if you got the problem solved and
>how.
>
>Eric db
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I had already tried that and it does not work - you
have
>>missed the point - the profile for the domain user is
>>only stored locally anyway. The option to copy it is
>>still greyed out when i log on as the local
administrator
>>and am connected to the network.
>>
>>Thanks anyway, any other ideas?
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>You should connect your network cable to the laptop,
but
>>>logon using the local account.
>>>
>>>You can then copy the domain user profile anywhere you
>>>want. It will just prompt for a logon ID for access
to
>>>network resources.
>>>
>>>You can copy that profile to a network folder that you
>>>create just to store that profile. If you want it
>>>portable you can copy it to a CD or a temporary
>>directory
>>>on the C:\ drive.
>>>
>>>CC
>>>Rhodes State College
>>>Lima, Ohio US
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>My XP Pro lap top is is a member of an NT4 domain, i
>>log
>>>>onto the domain at work and I log on locally to the
>>>>machine at home. There are two user profiles stored
on
>>>>the PC, one for the domain user and one for the local
>>>>user. Both are local profiles not roaming. I need to
>>>copy
>>>>the profile from the domain user to a local user so
>>that
>>>>when i remove the machine from the domain next month
I
>>>>dont loose all of the settings from the domain user.
>>>>Whatever i log on as (domain admin, local admin,
either
>>>>user) the option to copy the profile of the domain
user
>>>>is always greyed out. I can copy the profile for the
>>>>local user but not the domain one even though the
>>>profile
>>>>is stored locally. Why does this happen and what is
the
>>>>way round it?
>>>>.
>>>>
>>>.
>>>
>>.
>>
>.
>

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